Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-11-19

after day translated Latin for an hour or
60 between the bites.
l am told at the postof1ice department
that Villas is hard worker He comes to
his desk Mt between and 0:15 Il. m, and
rapidly goes over his mail. The pOstIas
ter general gets several hundred letters
daily, but his stenographcr and Chief
clerk run through these first, and he is
handed only those which It Is necessary
for him to see. He @ianCcS over thCm and
dictates answers to them rapidly, and
when they are finished be gins his morning
papers. There are many which require
his signature, and he writes his name ut
the end of each in & fine Italian hand.
By this time it is II O'Clock and callers
begin to come. lie receives these gener-
ally standing, and then eats a bite of
lunch, which is brought up into bis office
from the restaurant below. Then the diff
ferent chiefs of division come in, and the
various knotty things in the department
are proposed to him. Many of these arise
daily. and they are known among some of
the employees as sna9s Villas hears the
question at issue, directs the policy to be
pursued, and the next morning looks over
the answers which are prepared for him.
lie works along until O'Clock, when all
| the department clerks leave, and often
stays at his desk until 6 o'clock and later.
He has been rather progressive in his
postofIice work; has reduced, it is claimed,
the postofIicc deficiency several million
| dollars, and has enlarged the carrier ser
| vice and the special messenger service CT
| the department. Since his administra-
ton all towns of 10000 inhabitants, and
such towns as do postoffice business OF
| $4,000 year, have been furnished with
special delivery. fast mail has been
put on from New York to Havana, and a
IL I,,e,
and Kansas City in the time of carrying
the mails ! don't know how Villas re-
CARDS the postal telegraph and postal say
ings banks. He is said to have improved
the postotiice department in preventing
abscnteeism among the clerks They are
locked for their absence, and by recent
calculation it is claimed that Villas has
saved the department more than 5000
days, or twenty-one years, OF service.
However this may be, he Is certainly
orderly in his work and his men are kept
busy.
lie lives very nicely in Washington.
His house is q large three story brick, just
opposite that Of Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren,
looking out at the Thomas statue, and on
the next block to that OF Secretary Lay
ard. Mrs. Villas cntertains here to n con-
siderable extent and l have heard it
conjecturcd that her entertainments
this year will surpass those OF
the past, on account OF the coming
presidential campaign, and because
the wheels Of the household will be oiled
with the golden grease Of the Gogebic
mines. Mrs. Villas is very accomplished
lady She is one of the prettiest women
| in Washington, and she has n daugh-
ter who is like unto her. Miss Mollie
Villas is one of the bright leaders Of the
young girls Of Washington society. She
was president Of the charitable dinner
which was given to the children last
Christmas, and she is a very pretty little
girl.
Tic statement that Senator Jones, of
| Florida, has gone insane creates no sur
prise at Washington The danger was
whispered by his fellow statesmen here
long ago, and Gre of his brother senators
told me as much during the session which
closed last March. Jones was an extra
ordinary character. Self made, he had
acquired a remarkable knowledge of law,
and starting life as a carpenter he proved
himself to be ono CT the best constitutional
lawyers Of the senate. He was an Irish
man by birth, and when he first went to
Florida he worked at his trade hy day and
studied law by night. He began prac-
ticing Just about the time Buchanan en-
tered the White House. He was good
| speaker and he soon got u large practice.
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